The Music of Arboriculture

Subject: The Music of Arboriculture
From: greg stephens
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 08:33 AM

Iasn Carr has a record out called Timber(not too sure if that is the record title or the name of the band). It occurs to me that I have a record featuring Chris Woods, and another by Oak. My daughter, on the other hand, is a big fan of Ash. Do any other recordings/performers/songs suggest themselves, dear reader?

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 08:51 AM

The late Royston Wood & Heather Wood — both members of the Young Tradition with Peter Bellamy. People would. understandably, call them Royston & Heather Wood; but this erroneously suggested a non-existent relationship, either husband/wife or brother/sister: they once made a record together called 'No Relation'.

Folk Review magazine was founded & edited by Fred Woods, also director of Argo records, novelist & spy-thriller-writer, & an authority on Winston Churchill on whose life & work he did a PhD [despite having no '1st degree'] just before he died of cancer in the 1990s. He was a close friend of ours.

And there was, of course, Woody Guthrie...

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 08:57 AM

Furthermore, by train of thought, Peter Bellamy's brother-in-law, who sang the bass harmonies on some of his records, was Chris Birch, who is leader of a well-known group in Luxembourg.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 09:06 AM

I'm playing in a pub called The Willow Tree tonight.

Dave H

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: Vic Smith
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 09:34 AM

Holly Tannen
Pine Top Smith
Blackthorn
Dave Plane
Peter Rowan
Orchestra Baobab
Ash(ley) Hutchings
Hemlock Cock & Bull Band
Laurel Swift
The Magnolia Sisters
Pete Shepherd (Boscia albitrunca or Shepherd's tree)
Sara Grey (Populus canescens or Grey poplar)
Mary Black (Stychnos madagascariensis or Black monkey orange)
Orange Blossom Sound
Mike Silver (Birch)

submitted by Vic Smith (Royal Oak folk club)

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: EnglishFolkfan
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 11:03 AM

A quick look through 'folk' in my iTunes library brings up these people/groups (excluding others mentioned above):

Bob Forrester on VotP V5
The Douglas Firs - track Woman of Wood, album Fatea autumn09
Harry Cox VotP 12 (tenuous = apple tree)
Ian Woods/Charley Yarwood on Seasons,Ceremonies & Riturals
The Lone Tree Orchestra on They All Died at Passchendale
Megan Henwood & Joe Henwood
The Sawdust Band on The Guv'nor Ashley Hutchings Volume 2
Trees

Lots of tracks & albums but June Tabor's At The Wood's Heart sprang immediately to mind.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 11:26 AM

Yes, thanks for reminder — Trees were one of the early folk-rock groups: quite good singer I recall called Celia Humphris; but that habit so prevalent at time of irrelevant & interminable instrumental breaks in the middle of every track so that by time they started singing again you had forgotten what the bloody song was about.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 11:35 AM

Newfoundland's Snotty Var.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: EnglishFolkfan
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 11:40 AM

Well MtheGM

Trees is a group that constantly gets requests for air time on Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk (on tonight 7-9pm BBC Radio Shropshire, Stoke & Hereford & Worcestershire plus online if the gremlins don't cause a blip again!)

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 12:18 AM

Ah, thanks — is that Trees the same group I posted about or another of the same name? My strictures, btw, were just the way I saw/heard it at the time (& reviewed the group to that FK, in I think it was, the Times Ed Sup that I waas folk critic for at the time): not everybody has to agree [he conceded graciously!].

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: greg stephens
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 01:47 PM

New Deal String Band

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: GUEST,Gusty
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 02:05 PM

There was always Gay and Terry Woods and their later incarnation, The Woods Band.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 06:10 AM

Tree Bien

I'll get my coat......................

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: melodeonboy
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 06:36 AM

Surely fROOTS and The Carpenters would get a look in, not to mention Twiggy!

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 01:22 PM

That Les from Chorlton is always banging on about his sessions at the Beech.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 01:26 PM

Tree Bien

I'll get my coat......................

said GuestMrRed

Well wood you have believed it?

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 01:32 PM

All singing requires timbre. Good things come in trees.

Subject: RE: The Music of Arboriculture
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 01:35 PM

Yes, Valmai —— I twig...